I: Pulling Taffy
Fairytale
My Husband as a Child in Yugoslavia
Angel in the Blue Room
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Newspaper Headline Reads:
Sacrificial Sheep Shoves Man to his Death
Grandfather Zehr’s Schooling
Unsettled
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Diversity
Pulling Taffy with Mom
Picking Fruit
Silent Territory
With Apologies to my Hometown
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A Blasphemy
Where We Start
Keeping Warm
II: Paradise Revised
Ars Poetica
Funeral Address for an Ex-Boyfriend
Not a Poem for my Uncle
Night Fright
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INS Interview
A Different Kind of War Story
Thoughts After Hearing a Lecture on Translation
What It Doesn’t Say in the Brochure
To my Yugoslavian In-Laws
Still-life with Office Worker
Postulates
The Art of Taking
On Writing a Truthful Poem
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Fat Tuesday
Paradise Revised
Two Mothers and a Baby
My Husband Becoming a Naturalized Citizen
III: Losing Ground
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The Cost of a Garden Plot at City Park
Migraines and Other Mennonite Pains
A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all
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After the Divorce
Losing Ground
Note in a Bottle
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Kitchen on Antwerp Street
How to Show Decay Without Filming a Rotting Carcass
Rush Hour
Video from Bosnia
The Library in Philadelphia, New York
All Saints Day, Serbian Orthodox Church
Gap
Long Distance
Publication Acknowledgments
The Author
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